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UNIVERSITY YEARS Eric and Jari and I moved to Eugene in the late summer of 1965. We got a small apartment and I enrolled in the University of Oregon School of Architecture, a three year program after the two years…

CATEGORY: UNIVERSITY YEARSPHOTOS: THE BARN EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR When we moved to Eugene, I rented out my Tumalo house. It gave me some badly needed income. However, I retained use of the barn and the barnyard, which had an…

CATEGORY: UNIVERSITY YEARS PHOTOS: BOB AND ILLUSTRATED LETTERS I met Bob Anderson at a party in Bend during the Christmas/New Year holiday season of 1966. I was spending the holidays in my barn. He had come from Portland to stay…

Enno and Lorne were both in my design class. Both of them were tall and nice looking. That is where the resemblance ended. Enno was a blue eyed blonde. Lorne was a brown eyed brunette. Enno was full of sunshine.…

William Kleinsasser was my assigned adviser. He had played football for Princeton and been a friend and classmate of Mike Shannon's. I found out that Mike had actually written to him and told him about me as a kind of…

...near Albany I would notice a sign in large white letters on a red background that read COME TO ALBANY, THE BRIGHTEST SPOT IN OREGON'S FUTURE. Right behind it like a great mechanical dragon, was one of the dirtiest, smelliest…

CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON PHOTO: BRIDE AND GROOM After two years of being with Bob on weekends and school breaks, we decided to get married. We were married in The Pilot Butte Inn in Bend which was, at that time, closed.…

CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON PHOTOS: HOUSE AND YARD When I met Bob, he was renting the top half of an up/down duplex on S W Condor Avenue in Portland which curved up a steep, woodsy ravine between Barbur and Terwilliger Boulevards.…

CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON Another incident of indecencies to our automobiles involved Bob’s car, a Volkswagen station wagon. The brakes were bad and Bob had put off getting them fixed. One day, I was driving his car and was coming home…

One evening I heard a noise on the porch. Looking out I saw five small, almost baby sized raccoons scarfing down the cat food. When I opened the door they all fled except one. He was the testosterone kid.

Adele had recently read an article stating that certain successful people claimed they owed their success to having the spelling of their names changed by numerologists so that the numbers that went with the letters were lucky for them. An…

CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON In late May, 1972, Bob and I took a canoe trip on the Owyhee Reservoir in southeastern Oregon. I had seen pictures of the Owyhee River and the Grand Canyon-like country surrounding it and I was excited…